Creating a VCD on Windows with free software!

Creating a VCD for free is a labor intensive process. There are countless products which cost money that claim to be "FREE" and in fact, are not. It's a minefield. Anyway, there are various ways of creating VCDs for free, this is the easiest I can find.

First convert the file to mpeg1 VCD compatible with SUPER:
http://www.erightsoft.biz/GetFile.php?SUPERsetup.exe

Then package the mpeg you just created into a VCD format you can burn to disc (.bin and .cue files) with VCDImagerGUI:
http://download2.videohelp.com/download/VCDImagerGUI.zip

Then burn the VCD (in the .bin and .cue files) to disc using ImgBurn:
http://download.betanews.com/download/1128426215-1/SetupImgBurn_2.4.4.0.exe

Works great.

Install Camfrog Server on Ubuntu Linux 8.10

Camfrog doesn't offer a Ubuntu version of their product, so here's a guide in getting it to work for Ubuntu 8.10.

1. Download the RPM here: http://download.camfrog.com/serverlinux.phtml


2. Install alien: sudo apt-get install alien


3. Install libstdc++.so.6: apt-get install lib32stdc++6


4. Change directory to the file you downloaded from CamFrog and type: alien camfrog_x.xx.rpm


5. Now install the .deb package: dpkg -i camfrogserver_4.2-2_all.deb


6. Now just configure according to the instructions in the manual: man camfrogserver.conf


7. You may want to delete /etc/rc.d/init.d/camfrogserver since it won't work under Ubuntu.